Patents Assigned to Whitmire Research Laboratories
  • Patent number: 4411093
    Abstract: In an insect lure for attracting and killing insects, particularly the housefly, a tubular formed base member incorporates a pair of end caps, at each end of the tube, with the tubular member being formed of a kraft base paper, wrapped with an outer layer of white paper, then being covered with a fluorescent paper that provides a superficial luminescent surface of attraction to such insects, said luminescent material is overprinted with silhouettes of insects, such as the housefly, usually in a clustered arrangement, and may have a poison located at the focal point of such cluster for enhancing the kill of any attracted insect, and, finally, a coating of a lacquer is applied over the fluorescent attractant, including any silhouettes imprinted thereon, and a highly viscous tackifier material is applied upon the lacquer barrier for enhancing insect adherence thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Whitmire Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Stout, Charles B. Duff
  • Patent number: 4407454
    Abstract: In a spray system that facilitates its usage by the exterminator including a reservoir for holding an ample supply of the insecticide or other fluid, with the reservoir being held by a pouch to the belt or to other locations upon the user, a spray actuator coupled by means of a length of coiled hose to the reservoir, so that the operator need only manipulate the actuator to attain either a spray fogging or stream application of the insecticide; the hose connects to the reservoir through a valve member that attaches by means of a clamp and adaptor to the upper arranged port of the insecticide reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: Whitmire Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Billy G. Massey
  • Patent number: D270175
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 16, 1983
    Assignee: Whitmire Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel M. Stout
  • Patent number: D270267
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Whitmire Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel M. Stout
  • Patent number: D271231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Whitmire Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel M. Stout
  • Patent number: D276253
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1984
    Assignee: Whitmire Research Laboratories
    Inventor: Daniel M. Stout